CPE Online Training Credits – Continuing Professional Education (CPE) course catalogue – Treasury Products & Operations & Value at Risk
A walk through of learning objectives and included materials covered in our Continuing Professional Education (CPE Online) credit courses on Treasury products and Value at Risk available as part of 50 and 100 hour CPE Online [...]
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CPE Credits – Learning Objectives of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) course catalogue
This section reviews learning objectives and included materials for the following continuing professional education courses (CPE) available under the FinanceTrainingCourse.com Continuing Professional Education Certification Compliance program
Asset Liability Management
Derivative Pricing, Delta Hedging & Option Greeks
See here for CPE Credit Course outlines for Treasury Management & [...]
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) for Certified and Chartered Professionals.
If you are an Actuary , an Auditor, an Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Management accountant, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) or belong to any other community of Certified or Chartered professional membership body, you have a continuing professional education (CPE) credit [...]
The treasury operations and products course is a mix of core topics and four separate applications. Three of the applications deal with trading product families while the fourth deals with forecasting monetary policy (interest rate rise and cut decisions). Of the core topics the primary focus is on introducing key terms that are you likely [...]
Forecasting the monetary policy
The next monetary policy announcement is due in the last week of May 2010. We attempt to forecast the cut in the policy discount rate by looking at oil prices, the relationship between oil prices and imports, exports, remittances, the current account balance, net foreign assets, credit to the private sector and [...]
Option Trading Strategies refer to a combination of trades that can be used to reduce premiums, reduce downside, reduce upside, increase leverage, reduce leverage or a combination of one or more of the above elements. We start off with a review of the simplest of option trades and then use them as building blocks for other more complex combinations.
Before you go ahead and build them or start working with a treasury group you have to get familiar with the language used. Here is a list of common terms you are likely to see in treasury and treasury operations groups
Settlement
Settlement entails carrying out a series of duties in respect of all transactions emanating from the front office effectively leading to making an actual payment.
Settlement risk is the risk that after having sent the payment instructions, there is a delay in receiving the payment or the payment is not made at all, i.e. there is [...]
Liquidity enhancement tactics
For Systemic Crisis
Liquidity management tactics may include the following:
Do not plan to rely on selling assets during cyclical peaks or credit crunches
As a cushion for capital market disruption hold very high quality assets such as treasury securities
Manage the maturities of borrowings
Do not plan on ready or cost effective access to borrowed funds
For short [...]
Contingency Funding Plan
The liquidity contingency plan addresses alternative sources of funds if initial projections of funding sources and uses are incorrect. As it is not feasible to hold funds to such an extent that it covers least likely events as well, the contingency plan will act as the bridge between the actual liquidity that is [...]
